Improvement in tab-plates of buckles



E. L. PARKER.

I Tab Plates of Brace Fas'tenings or Buckles. No. 123,640.

Petented Feb.13, 1872.

' PA'rn'r EDWARD LAWLEY PARKER, OF BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN TAB-PLATES OF BUCKLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 123,640, dated February 13, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD LAWLEY PARKER, trading as Bent & Parker, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, England, manufacturer, a subject of the Queen of Great 7 Britain, have invented or discovered new and EDWARD LAW'LEY PARKER, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof-that is to say:

My invention consists in constructing the tab-plates of brace-fastenin gs or buckles in the manner hereinafter described, for the purpose of readily connecting the said tab-plates with and disconnecting them from the body of the brace-fastening or buckle attached to the web of the brace. The tab-plate constructed according to my invention consists of a perforated plate to which the brace-tabs are secured, the said plate having a hook and spring tongue. The end of the spring-tongue engages with a raised part at the extreme end of the hook, and thereby closes the said hook.

In connecting the tab-plate to the loop or ring at the lower edge of the fastening or buckle secured to the brace, the spring-tongue is'depressed against the back of the tab-plate, so as to free the hook which can now be hooked to the fastening or buckle. By loosing the tab-plate the spring-tongue engages with the end of the hook, and the tab-plate is securely connected to the fastening or buckle.

On depressing the spring tongue the tabplate may be unhooked from the fastening or buckle. r

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in front elevation, and Fig. 2 in side elevation, a tab-plate constructed according to my invention, combined with a brace-buckle or fastening and brace-web. Fig. 3 represents in front elevation, side elevation and back elevation, the tab-plate detached and Fig. 4 represents the blank from which the tab-plate is made.

1 a is the fastening or buckle, secured on the end of the brace-web b, the said fastening or buckle having a semicircular loop, 0, at bottom, with which the tab-plate d is connected. The body or widest part d of the tab-plate is furnished with holes or piercings, d 01 one on either side of the central line of the plate. These holes or piercings constitute loops, through which the tabs 0 e are passed, and fastened by rivets, eyelets, or otherwise. At the top and inner side of the tab-plate is a hook, (P, and engaging with the end of the said hook is a spring-tongue, d, the said springtongue closing the said hook and preventing it from being accidentally disengaged from anything with which it may be hooked. The extreme end (1 of the hook d is raised out of the plane in which the other part is situated, and the end of the spring-tongue d engages against the under side of the said raised part, as represented in the drawing. The inner side of the said hook, and the inner side of the spring-tongue are thus flush, or in the same plane. The plate d, hook 01 d and springtongue (Z are made froma single blank of elastic sheet metal, of the kind represented in Fig. 4, the arms or parts d (1% being folded in opposite directions upon the middle part 01, so as to form the hook-and spring-tongue of the tab-plate. In order to connect the tab-plate d with the loop or ring 0 at the bottom edge of the fastening or buckle a, it is only necessary to grasp the tab-plate between the thumb and forefinger, the thumb pressing upon the springtongue d, and the finger supporting the back of the tab-plate. The spring-tongue is there by depressed against the back of the tab-plate, and the hook at is free to be hooked on the ring or loop 0 of the fastening or buckle. By loosing the tab-plate d, the spring-tongue d engages with the end of the hook 01 and the tab-plate is thereby securely connected to the fastening or buckle.

The disconnecting of the tab-plate-from the a Q BEIGE.

fastening is efl'ected by pressing down the spring-tongue d, and unhooking the tab-plate from the loop 0 of the fastening or buckle.

Having now described the nature of my invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I claim as my invention- A tab-plate for the fastenings or buckles of braces, consisting of a perforated plate, d,

hook d 01 and spring-tongue d, engaging 

